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Added this Torch about a week ago. Today, I noticed it's not extending and there what looks like tissue melt around the rim.

Okay, so I picked up a branching hammer frag about 2 weeks ago. It looked good, very colorful, and I got a good deal. Got home yesterday, and it was closed up tight with some "algae" on top of the flesh. I was too tired to investigate too much, so I put it off until this morning. I learned that it was probably brown jelly disease. So, I siphoned out as much of the jelly as I could, and was left with 5-7 healthy polyps, and maybe 10-15 sick ones. This was a 30-40 polyp head, too. I did a quick search online, and decided that I should take some pretty aggressive action. I decided to do a peroxide dip, followed by a Lugol's dip. One to kill the things causing the brown jelly, and one to act as an anti-septic. I'm left with 4-5 healthy polyps on the head. The skeleton is VERY white, and it was throwing off a lot of mucus after being put back into the tank. I replaced carbon just in case. What should I do for my other LPS in my tank? I've only got 2 other LPS frags, an Aussie War Coral and a Candy Cane. The War Coral has shown nothing but good growth lately, and the Candy Cane is coming around after a few weeks of unhappiness with algae. Should I do a (much) less aggressive treatment? Leave em' alone? Anything I can do to improve my chances with the hammer? I'm not too hopeful right now. I've seen corals come back from worse, but this is pretty bad. Tank parameters: Ammonia/Nitrite: 0 PPM Nitrate: 4-5 PPM Phosphate: 0.12 PPM (been working to get this down!) Calcium: 420 PPM KH: 9.4 dKH (stable) Other than my phosphate, everything's been pretty good parameter-wise. Thanks!